The Importance of a Robust Doctrine of Sin

With respect to Christians at least there's this poignant saying by Jesus that he who has been forgiven much loves much. What separates these? Yeah that's very difficult to answer. I think if the unbeliever really did grasp how morally wretched he is and then that God has sent Christ to die to forgive him that might evoke in that person a deeper sense of the love of God. But without that deep consciousness of sin I doubt that people will really come to know Christ and serve him. You've got to have that sense of your own need first. And that is the work of the Holy Spirit. The Scripture says that God sends the Holy Spirit to convict the world of sin and righteousness and judgment